Elvis Dumervil's five-year, $58.3 million contract extension includes $43 million worth of money that is guaranteed against injury.

However, because the injury guarantees do not kick in until the first year of the extension — the 2011 season — there was speculation Thursday that the Broncos could escape those guarantees. If the team wanted to play financial hardball and waited for Dumervil to pass a physical after recovering from his injury, then released him before the 2011 season, those injury and other guarantees in the remainder of the contract would not be in effect.

However, Broncos officials pointed out Thursday that if Dumervil were healthy and passed a physical, that would mean the Broncos would keep a player they coveted enough to sign to the deal, who has done the right things and who had, by that time, recovered from an injury that isn't considered career-threatening.

And if he were injured and still on the road to recovery — for example, if there was some unforeseen complication in his rehab — the Broncos couldn't release him at that point because league rules prevent teams from releasing an injured player without a financial settlement.

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